27 participants, including 5 women, of age range 21-60 from 13 states screen their shooting exercises and critique their work on day 5 of FTII’s on going Smartphone Film Making course at IIMC, Delhi with Ajmal Jami as Course Director.
The participants have varied educational qualifications: HSC, B.Pharm, B.Tech, Graduate, LLM, M.Phil and Post Graduation. Among them is Assistant Professor, Executive, Farmer, Film Maker, Freelance journalist, Govt. Servant, Journalist, Photographer, School Teacher, Self Employed, Student and Teacher.
They hail from 13 states :
1) Uttar Pradesh (Bahraich)
2) Karnataka (Bengaluru)
3) Chatisgarh (Raipur, Bastar)
4) Kerala (Calicut,Cochin)
5) Haryana (Gurugram, Charkhi Dadri,Sonepat)
6) Odisha (Dandipur)
7) Maharashtra (Mumbai,Pune, Gondia)
8) Himachal Pradesh (Sadar, Kangra)
9) West Bengal (Kolkata)
10) Punjab (Mohali)
11) New Delhi
12) Bihar (Patna)
13) Gujarat (Vadodara)
The objective of the SMARTPHONE FILM MAKING course is to introduce the mobile phone as a powerful film making device. The course seeks to orient participants towards a filmic way of seeing,with the basic capacity to create their versions of thoughts, observations, stories into small films using the smartphone.
Course Director Ajmal Jami (AJKMCRC,1985) is a reputed practising professional with over 30 years experience in visual communication with work in a diverse range of technologies and genres including mobile journalism. His body of work as a cinematographer has garnered many national and international awards. In addition to his work as cinematographer and conducts workshops for FTII under SKIFT.
